Native mobile screenshots

expect(driver).toHaveScreenshot(name, options)

• name — string used to identify and store the baseline image
• options — optional object controlling comparison behavior, see Key options below

Examples

await expect(driver).toHaveScreenshot(
  "home-screen",
  { maxMisMatchPercentage: 1 }
);

await expect(driver).toHaveScreenshot(
  "home-screen",
  { maxMisMatchPercentage: 1 }
);

await expect(
  driver.$(`//android.widget.ImageView[@resource-id="com.example.app:id/hero_image"]`)
).toHaveScreenshot(
  "hero-image",
  { maxMisMatchPercentage: 1 }
);

// Avoid
await expect(driver).toHaveScreenshot();

When to use

• Your app has a rendering-heavy screen like a chart or map that can’t be asserted with selectors.
• Your app has pixel-perfect design requirements and you want automated enforcement.
• Your app has gone through a redesign and you need to catch layout regressions.
• Your test needs to verify a visual state that no functional assertion can cover.

Key options

Notes

• On the first run, no baseline exists yet — the screenshot is saved automatically as the expected image. Review it before relying on the test.
• To inspect a visual diff result in the editor, collapse the test block — an icon will appear in the right gutter of that line. Click it to open the Image Diff panel, where you can view the Diff, Expected, Actual, and Compare tabs for each named snapshot.
• On subsequent runs, a new screenshot is compared pixel-by-pixel to the baseline. If the difference exceeds the threshold, the test fails and a diff image is saved showing exactly which pixels changed.
• If a UI change is intentional, promote the new screenshot as the updated baseline in the QA Wolf editor. Future runs will compare against the new image.
• On iOS, baselines are named by device screen size (e.g. home-screen-ios-390×844-expected.png) — a baseline captured on an iPhone 15 will not match an iPhone 15 Plus.
• Baselines are stored in team storage under _screenshots_ and are shared across all flows in the same team.

Full sample test

import { expect, flow } from "@qawolf/flows/ios";

export default flow(
  "Visual regression — home screen",
  { target: "iOS - iPhone 15 (iOS 26)", launch: true },
  async ({ driver, test }) => {
    await test("assert home screen appearance", async () => {
      await expect(driver).toHaveScreenshot(
        "home-screen",
        { maxMisMatchPercentage: 1 }
      );
    });
  },
);